The order, available at https://covid19.ca.gov, aims to protect the health of all Californians by establishing consistency across the state to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19. Orange County residents can still go to the grocery store to buy food, the pharmacy to pick up their medications, get gas and continue banking.

Residents are encouraged to practice good health hygiene, including washing their hands, staying home if they are sick, avoiding close contact with people who are sick, and covering coughs and sneezes with a tissue or their sleeves (not hands). Practice social distancing whenever possible by keeping a distance of six feet between yourself and others.

Does this supersede the County of Orange Public Health Order?

Yes. Our order includes that any State of California Orders that are more restrictive supersede the County Public Health Order.

How long will we stay home?

This order went into effect Thursday, March 19, 2020 and will remain in place until further notice.

You can go outside for walks and recreation but won’t be able to do so in groups. We recommend avoiding play structures and playgrounds as they are high-touch areas.

Can I visit my family?

You can continue to interact with family.

Why should I comply?

This is a lawful order from the State of California that requires your compliance. This order protects the health of all California residents. By staying home you are protecting your loved ones and your neighbors. Your community needs your help to “flatten the curve,” which reduces the risk of exposure for everyone. This is best accomplished by adhering to the guidelines defined above. We are requesting your voluntary compliance.

For non-medical questions, contact the County of Orange Public Information Hotline at (714) 628-7085.

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Our amigo Ricardo received this from a nurse friend, and asked us to pass it on:

This is Jennie with Nat’l Nurses United, with a crucial request. There is a bill before Congress that would allow OSHA to enact an Emergency Temporary Standard to protect health care workers, and therefore patients and the public, against the spread of coronavirus. Can you call your Rep today and ask them to support this bill?

And please dial (202) 335-6015 to reach our COVID-19 national hotline. Just enter your zip code to be automatically connected to your Rep. Ask them to demand that H.R. 6139, the COVID-19 Worker Protection Act of 2020, be included in the next COVID-19 omnibus bill without any weakening amendments. Also ask them to vote YES on the House floor. Please share this info with your friends and family. Thanks for your support!

If you’re real bored at 4 today (Sunday) go to Facebook …

Vern’ll be doing a virtual concert

with all your requests.

A few problems – my sustain pedal was only working intermittently;
My voice hurts my ears;
Donna hated Stars and Stripes Forever and stopped filming after that;
And FB sent me a notice that they cut out some of the music because of ownership – that was probably Zeppelin’s Rain Song. YouTube removed my performance of that a few years ago. Whoever owns that song in this century (and I doubt it’s Jimmy Page and Robert Plant) is REALLY POSSESSIVE.

March 2020 Green Day rewrite:
We’re checking in from Anna Drive
Is anyone out there left alive?
Wake me up when this Virus ends.
The toilet paper’s bought and sold.
The Great Sidhu Recall’s on hold.
Wake me up when this Virus ends.
Nothing but COVID-19 on MSNBC.
We’re flattening the curve I know, but the curve is flatt’ning me.
We’re stir crazy in this place,
I guess we miss the human race,
Wake me up when this Virus ends!

Found on OC Buzz

This is your Weekend Open Thread. Use it wisely. Or at least entertainingly.

About Admin

"Admin" is just editors Vern Nelson, Greg Diamond, or Ryan Cantor sharing something that they mostly didn't write themselves, but think you should see. Before December 2010, "Admin" may have been former blog owner Art Pedroza.

*Chairman Vern, don’t tell us that you buying into this nonsense. Really?

How many people died in Asia last year? Our friend in Thailand says: 36 Million.
How many have died of Corona Virus or are projected to in 2020? Call an expert and figure it out. This crisis is designed to kill our Western Economy. Every day
that we are Full Stop will require ONE month to recover. 30 days equals 30 Months. We are going to a Crypto Currency and this is going kill a lot of people in the in between. No auto manufacturing, no tire manufacturing, no restaurants, no toilet paper and soon NO a lot of things! But we are ever hopeful that the tremendous work of the current Administration will save us……

Speaking of Gilliard, he kind of ACCIDENTALLY ended up working for the Westminster Recall. Long story there, how to shorten it…

A famous LA Vietnamese billionaire decided he wanted to help fund that recall because he knew about the corruption and cronyism. So far so good. But then he insisted on funding it with an “in-kind donation.” OK, what in-kind donation? He hired Gilliard to put out mail and send out volunteers.

Surprise, the mail was garish, inaccurate and manipulative. And the volunteers didn’t know much about the actual local issues. Other things went wrong as well. Sigh… Hopefully justice will still prevail despite Gilliard.

This is the sort of thing that people don’t get. These “professionals” are used to dealing with political boobs who can’t think rationally. Remember the anti-recall team in Fullerton in 2012? What a disaster. Why? Most likely Dave Ellis, whose political product is appallingly bad.

Now compare that to an “amateur”: Bushala’s anti-bonds campaign from a few weeks ago. He probably spent 10% of what the dummies on the other side spent. His message was clean and sharp – like a line drive. His strategy was basic and his tactical plan was executed on schedule.

I often wonder why there isn’t more consumer push back on most of these so-called consultants who waste so much money.

I missed most of that, so far as I know (given that the “no” signs didn’t look like his), he left Brea alone. What was his campaign beyond the usual dam-burst flood of “NO ON x” signs?

David Zenger

Posted March 25, 2020 at 10:15 PM

Poor, sad nobody. What election have you ever won? Right. None.

Always jealous of winners and bragging about your latest loss and how it wa really a victory but people just don’t understand.

Got it.

David Zenger

Posted March 25, 2020 at 10:35 PM

Of course you took the bait, right on schedule. I bet Tony a six-pack you’d do it before seven PM. I won.

Greg Diamond

Posted March 26, 2020 at 12:36 AM

Ah, you won a few bucks from your only friend and patron! Good doggy! And you think I care about this … why?

That was an honest and legitimate question that you oddly construed as “taking the bait.” I think that your claiming a personal victory for the loss of bonds in Fullerton, when they lost in every other portion of Orange County as well (except for the sliver in the Lowell district) is charming.

You don’t live in my head, Zenger. I wish I didn’t live in yours, but I guess that’s what, um. contribution to the losses of a couple of members of your small claque means that I’m stuck there permanently.

David Zenger

Posted March 28, 2020 at 9:30 PM

Didn’t answer the question. What election have you ever won?

Nobody lives in your head. And that’s a real problem. Nothing there except delusional voices of grandeur bouncing of one another.

Still waiting for your tell-all story on Norby naming times, dates, places and sources. Do I have to wait much longer or can you just finally admit you’re nothing but an empty sack?

Greg Diamond

Posted March 30, 2020 at 2:55 PM

Party elections and university student government elections.

I have never tried running to win in a public election. If I lived in a blue area, I might. But two people I’ve run against were softened up to lose their next election — and Brett Barbre (whom I’ve run against twice) will likely be the third in two years.

Now, what elections have you or Tony ever run in? None — right?

Which elections have I decisively influenced, if that’s what you mean by “won”? SQS’s, Josh Newman’s, maybe Spitzer’s (though he could be right that he would have won without me). I’m sure that there are more.

That “nobody lives in your head” attempt was weak. No enemies live in my head; various friends do.

Do you remember my asking if you or Norby could arrange for me to talk to his kids (step-kids or adopted, not the then-infant) from the marriage in question? I’d still like to talk to them to see if their memories match the report I received.

I did speak to the person who spoke to me about what they had seen and heard. They are aware of your and (to a lesser extent Tony’s) reputation for intense and never-ending viciousness. They do not think that it makes sense to open them up to that sort of attack. If you think that that makes me a sack, either empty of lying sack of, that’s almost meaningless. You’re the poster child for being able to dish it out but not take it. You hurt people for fun and profit, then when someone you like — even a deserving someone — gets hurt you let it haunt you forever. And, again: you’re the one who brought me into FFFF to argue once you attacked me under your cowardly mask, so what happened to Norby after it escalated there, once I didn’t give in to the savage beatings like you depended on, is your own doing. The person in question noted that and will wait until you and Tony die to release me from my bond of confidentiality. If you had a profession, you might understand that.

Would you mind if I change your name in your comments so that they are all the same? I can see the nice continuity in your comments, but others can’t. How about “Magic Mountain” or “Mountain Magic”? You used to be static for extended periods; now you’re bouncing around with every comment.

No, I don’t know who you are, and yes, I appreciate your comments here.

I stand by my position expressed there, but I suspect that Diedre and Sergio — as well as the Westminster Recall replacement candidates may not. And that’s fine with me.

When I was involved with Amnesty International, it had a policy that people from within a given country were shielded from involvement in any criticism of that country. Sometimes the push for change has to come from outside.

If the notion is to try to discredit me as an advocate, I’ll first note that I speak for no one but myself these days — not for Vern, not for any candidate, and certainly not for the Democratic Party (which has improved little from the days discussed there.) But I do have strong feelings about the importance of freeing Westminster and Garden Grove in particular from the apparent use of threats to impose acceptance of local corruption. I’ve been extremely expressed by the braveness of reformers within the OC Vietnamese community — and this year, first in Westminster and then in AD-72 and the 1st Supe’s races — may seriously be a turning point in ridding them from the abuses that I hear about, but that aren’t widely discussed. (By the way, the “Trin Ho” lambasting me in that earlier story seems not to be a real person living in the area, judging by searches I’ve done. It could be “Trin” — but why the obvious misspelling?)

That it’s getting hits suggests that someone may be gearing up to use it against the Westminster candidates, or Diedre, or Sergio. So there’s a head’s up to those candidates. I speak for no one but myself and I don’t expect anyone who tries to represent that community to agree with my position. But if it is possible to ensure that no *unwilling* sex work is taking place there or anywhere else in OC, I’m all for that. I wonder if my critics will be able to honestly say the same.